Get Ready... Set... GO! Summer Program Kickoff

Diversity Highlights

Receipt by Grace Speights of the Washington Business Journal Minority Business Leader Award (2010).

Grace Speights recognized by the Washingtonian magazine as one of "Washington's 100 Most Powerful Women" (2009).

Ted Cruz named by Texas Lawyer as one of the "Extraordinary Minorities in Texas Law" (2009).

Named as a Top Law Firm for Diversity by MultiCultural Law magazine (2009).

Receipt by Joan Haratani of the American Bar Association Spirit of Excellence Award (2009).

Receipt by Joan Haratani of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity's Bar Association Diversity Award (2008).

Receipt by Joan Haratani of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund's Award of Excellence for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Law and Criminal Justice (2008).

Recipient of the Hispanic National Bar Association's Corporate Partner of the Year Award (2007).

Recipient of the first-ever University of Pennsylvania Black Law Students Association "Contribution of Distinction" Award (Feb. 2005).

Recognition of Anne Marie Estevez by Hispanic Business magazine as a "2006 Elite Woman" and finalist in its 2006 Hispanic Woman of the Year award. Anne Marie has also been recognized by Diversity Inc. Magazine and in Working Mother magazine.

Selection of Grace Speights and Celia Roady as two of the Top 50 Women in Washington, D.C. by Super Lawyers magazine.

Election of Joan Haratani as the first female minority president of the Bar Association of San Francisco.

Election of Maria Gonzalez Calvet as president-elect of the Hispanic Bar Association of Philadelphia.

Receipt by Dennis Morikawa and Joan Haratani of the NAPABA "Trailblazer Award" at the NAPABA Annual Convention (Nov. 2006).

19% of the female attorneys who were elected to partnership in the past five years did so while working on an alternative schedule.

Premier sponsor of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA).

Pro Bono in 2009

More than 90,000 hours were spent on pro bono representations, at a value to our pro bono clients of tens of millions of dollars.

More than 75% of the firm's attorneys contributed at least 20 hours to a pro bono matter; representations span all practice groups and offices.

Representations included more than 1,300 active matters, including nearly 600 new matters.

Full "above the line" credit given for pro bono time charges.

Morgan Lewis is a signatory to the Pro Bono Institute's Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge.

For the past six years, Morgan Lewis has brought firm leaders and summer associates from throughout the United States to a single location for a multiday kickoff to the Summer Associate Program. Kickoffs in prior years were held in San Francisco, Baltimore, Chicago, and Absecon, New Jersey. The 2007 kickoff was held in Santa Monica with a beach theme, where flip flops were given out and summer associates enjoyed a night on the beach with a campfire and s'mores. The 2008 kickoff was held in Washington, D.C. and in 2009 we met in Baltimore, Maryland.

As in years past, part of the kickoff program is devoted to introducing summer associates to Morgan Lewis and its practices. In 2008, however, summer associates joined with firm leaders and other Morgan Lewis lawyers in a community service project at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Georgetown, near our D.C. office. We continued our focus on community service in 2009 and again partnered with one of our Pro Bono clients.

Morgan Lewis's inaugural Community Service Summer Associate Kickoff supplemented our unique Public Interest and Community Service split-summer program. Picture yourself at Morgan Lewis, beginning your summer experience by serving the needs of others.

Members of the attorney recruiting staff greet summer associates at the registration table.

Summer associates listen carefully as junior associates give them information on how to have a successful summer.

John Ring, the Washington, D.C. office hiring partner, introduces David Gerson, deputy managing partner of the Pittsburgh office, and his presentation on the business of a law firm.

Summer associates, students, and attorneys paint the fences outside of the Duke Ellington School for the Arts, one of the many community service projects completed throughout the day.

Students from the Duke Ellington School for the Arts thank the volunteers from Morgan Lewis by performing a few of their favorite routines.

Summer associates sit in on the daytime programming at the kickoff.

Members of the 2007 Summer Associate Program gather for a cocktail reception at the Jonathan Club in Santa Monica.

Summer associates and attorneys enjoy an evening dinner on the beach.